In the Options|Discussion tab, we’re presented with a checkbox that says, “Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)”
What that means is that for any article linked to in a particular post, wordpress should automatically be sending a ping to alert that article that you’ve written about them, saving you the time of having to manually paste their trackback URI into the Trackbacks section of the Write Post screen.
Sorry to the blogs who got multiple trackback pings from me. It’s not me. It’s WordPress 2.0.1 auto-discovery trackback sending duplicate pings.
So far the results have shown:
no trackback ping sent to my wordpress 1.5.2 blog
2 duplicate auto-pings sent to someone else’s wordpress 2.0 blog
That’s how long it took to publish my last post. Yet WordPress still claims 0.12 seconds. Now the question remains whether this has to do with upgrading WP 2.0 to 2.0.1, or if this is a problem even for fresh installs of 2.0.1 (which I haven’t yet done - anyone else?)
While it didn’t take quite as long as the first post to publish, it still took longer than it previously had (and again, we’re talking about posts with no trackbacks or pings). I need a stopwatch so I can really tell exactly how long it’s taking to publish my posts, but I’m disappointed that things have slowed down a bit in the WordPress publishing process.
My last post had no trackbacks in it (or links to ping), and was my first post created using WP 2.0.1. When I clicked the publish button, instead of the lightening fast response I’ve grown to love with wordpress 2.0, it took a really long time for it to publish the page. Not only that, but WordPress then lied to me and told me (on the bottom of the page) that the processing time was 0.11 seconds. Try closer to a full minute.
I’m pleased to report that WordPress 2.0.1 is out and that the upgrade on this test blog from 2.0 to 2.0.1 was a piece of cake to do.
Purportedly, some of the many bugfixes that were included in 2.0.1 address the trackback issues that I and many others have been experiencing (which was the major reason I hadn’t upgraded my other blogs to wordpress 2.0).
I’ve heard that there was some issues with the new WYSIWYG editor (which can be disabled, by the way, if you so choose), and I had experienced some quirkiness in using it before (such as the cursor moving to unexpected places at times).
But now I’ve experienced what I’d consider a serious bug. Here’s what happened:
Some people have reported in the forums that they’ve had problems with trackbacks using WordPress 2.0.
